Information Processing Apparatus and Method and Program

1. An information processing apparatus, comprising: a processor that performs as: acquiring means for receiving notification from a content accumulation server that content has been newly stored in the content accumulation server, and for acquiring, as a real item, the newly stored content stored in the content accumulation server via a network, real item information generating means for generating real item information including information about a location at which the real item acquired by said acquiring means is stored and an own location, extracting means for extracting a range that satisfies a predetermined condition from said real item acquired by said acquiring means, virtual item generating means for generating, as a virtual item, content which comprises a plurality of ranges extracted by said extracting means, collecting means for collecting said real item on the basis of said generated content as said virtual item; and virtual item information generating means for generating virtual item information including a reproduction sequence list indicative of a location of a plurality of real items each having a range that satisfies the predetermined condition making up the virtual item, a reproduction range indicative of a range satisfying the predetermined condition in each of the plurality of the real items, and a reproduction sequence indicating an order in which the reproduction ranges in each of the plurality of the real items are reproduced, wherein own locations included in the real item information and the virtual item information are written as uniform resource locators.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein said stored content is stored in each of a plurality of content accumulation servers connected to said information processing apparatus via said network.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein own locations included in said real item information and said virtual item information are written in a same format.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising: inputting means through which content to be reproduced is specified, wherein, if content specified through said inputting means for reproduction is a real item, said collecting means collects real item information corresponding to said content specified for reproduction and, if said content specified for reproduction is a virtual item, said collecting means collects said real item on the basis of virtual item information.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein said network is based on a digital living network alliance standard.

6. An information processing method configured to operate on an information processing apparatus, the method comprising: receiving notification from a content accumulation server that content has been newly stored in the content accumulation server; acquiring, as a real item, the newly stored content stored in the content accumulation server via a network; generating real item information including information about a location at which the acquired real item is stored and an own location; extracting a range that satisfies a predetermined condition from said real item acquired by said acquiring step; generating, as a virtual item, content which comprises a plurality of ranges extracted by said extracting step; collecting said real item on the basis of said generated content as said virtual item; and generating virtual item information including a reproduction sequence list indicative of a location of a plurality of real items each having a range that satisfies the predetermined condition making up the virtual item, a reproduction range indicative of a range satisfying the predetermined condition in each of the plurality of the real items, and a reproduction sequence indicating an order in which the reproduction ranges in each of the plurality of the real items are reproduced, wherein own locations included in the real item information and the virtual item information are written as uniform resource locators.

7. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having instructions of a program stored thereon, the instructions being executable by a processor of an information processing apparatus to perform a method, the method including: receiving notification from a content accumulation server that content has been newly stored in the content accumulation server; acquiring, as a real item, the newly stored content stored in the content accumulation server via a network; generating real item information including information about a location at which the acquired real item is stored and an own location; extracting a range that satisfies a predetermined condition from said real item acquired by said acquiring step; generating, as a virtual item, content which comprises a plurality of ranges extracted by said extracting step; collecting said real item on the basis of said generated content as said virtual item; and generating virtual item information including a reproduction sequence list indicative of a location of a plurality of real items each having a range that satisfies the predetermined condition making up the virtual item, a reproduction range indicative of a range satisfying the predetermined condition in each of the plurality of the real items, and a reproduction sequence indicating an order in which the reproduction ranges in each of the plurality of the real items are reproduced, wherein own locations included in the real item information and the virtual item information are written as uniform resource locators.

8. An information processing apparatus, comprising: a processor encoded with instructions of a program to perform a method, the method including: receiving notification from a content accumulation server that content has been newly stored in the content accumulation server, acquiring, as a real item, the newly stored content stored in the content accumulation server via a network, generating real item information including information about a location at which the acquired real item is stored and an own location, extracting a range that satisfies a predetermined condition from said real item acquired by said acquiring step, generating, as a virtual item, content which comprises a plurality of ranges extracted by said extracting step, collecting said real item on the basis of said generated content as said virtual item; and generating virtual item information including a reproduction sequence list indicative of a location of a plurality of real items each having a range that satisfies the predetermined condition making up the virtual item, a reproduction range indicative of a range satisfying the predetermined condition in each of the plurality of the real items, and a reproduction sequence indicating an order in which the reproduction ranges in each of the plurality of the real items are reproduced, wherein own locations included in the real item information and the virtual item information are written as uniform resource locators.